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<h1 id="poster/Contents">Posterior objects and functions</h1>

<p>Posterior objects, <tt>poster</tt>, are used to evaluate the behaviour of the
posterior dsitribution, and to draw model parameters from the posterior
distibution.</p>

<p>Posterior objects are set up within the <link id="model/estimate"><tt>model/estimate</tt></link>
function and returned as the second output argument&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;the set up and
initialisation of the posterior object is fully automated in this case.
Alternatively, you can set up a posterior object manually, by setting all
its properties appropriately.</p>

<h3>Constructor</h3>

<ul><li><link id="poster/poster"><tt>poster</tt></link>&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Posterior objects and functions.</li></ul>

<h3>Evaluating posterior density</h3>

<ul><li><link id="poster/arwm"><tt>arwm</tt></link>&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Adaptive random-walk Metropolis posterior simulator.</li>
<li><link id="poster/eval"><tt>eval</tt></link>&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Evaluate posterior density at specified points.</li>
<li><link id="poster/testpar"><tt>testpar</tt></link>&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Test performance of for versus parfor loops in evaluating posterior simulator.</li></ul>

<h3>Chain statistics</h3>

<ul><li><link id="poster/stats"><tt>stats</tt></link>&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Evaluate selected statistics of an MCMC chain.</li></ul>

<h3>Getting on-line help on model functions</h3>
<pre>   help poster
   help poster/function_name
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